Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna of Russia (1882�1960) was the youngest child of

Emperor Alexander III of Russia and younger sister of Emperor Nicholas II. Her
father died when she was 12, and her brother Nicholas became emperor. At 19 she
married Duke Peter Alexandrovich of Oldenburg; their marriage was unconsummated and
was annulled by the Emperor in October 1916. The following month Olga married
cavalry officer Nikolai Kulikovsky, with whom she had fallen in love several years
before. During the First World War, the Grand Duchess served as an army nurse at
the front and was awarded a medal for personal gallantry. At the downfall of the
Romanovs in the Russian Revolution of 1917, she fled to the Crimea with her husband
and children, where they lived under the threat of assassination. After her brother
and his family were shot by revolutionaries, she and her family escaped to Denmark
in February 1920. In exile, she was often sought out by Romanov impostors who
claimed to be her dead relatives. In 1948, feeling threatened by Joseph Stalin's
regime, she emigrated with her immediate family to Ontario, Canada. (Full
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escaped burning in a fire, was lost for decades, and then was found in a damp
basement heavily water damaged and chewed by rodents?
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homeopathy, but instead discontinued her homeopathic practice and wrote a book
called Homeopathy Reconsidered?
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Xinzheng International Airport during a snowstorm rioted over delayed flights,
destroying check-in desks and assaulting staff?
... that the M60 and Q70 bus routes in New York City were upgraded because
LaGuardia Airport had no other rapid transit options?
... that the Republic SD-4 and Fairchild SD-5 reconnaissance drones were designed
to provide targeting data for tactical ballistic missiles?
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whether that is due to his innate honesty or the fact that I watch him like a cat
does not matter"?
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1778 � France and the United States signed the Treaty of Alliance and the Treaty of
Amity and Commerce, establishing military and commercial ties respectively between
the two nations.
1819 � British official Stamford Raffles (pictured) signed a treaty with Sultan
Hussein Shah of Johor, establishing Singapore as a trading post for the British
East India Company.
1840 � The British and the Maori signed the Treaty of Waitangi, considered as the
founding document of New Zealand.
1958 � The aircraft carrying the Manchester United football team crashed while
attempting to take off from Munich-Riem Airport in West Germany, killing 8 players
and 15 others.
1987 � Mary Gaudron was appointed as the first female Justice of the High Court of
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